在思考方面，这可能被称为反转。你会发现世界是圆的而不是平的。“你真的不需要知道角色的索引来处理它。”作为一名C程序员，我发现这也很难接受! 你的行“let index = letters.characters.indexOf("c")!”本身就足够了。 例如，要去掉c，你可以用…(操场粘贴)

    var letters = "abcdefg"
  //let index = letters.rangeOfString("c")!.startIndex //is the same as
    let index = letters.characters.indexOf("c")!
    range = letters.characters.indexOf("c")!...letters.characters.indexOf("c")!
    letters.removeRange(range)
    letters

然而，如果你想要一个索引，你需要返回一个实际的index而不是Int值，因为Int值对于任何实际使用都需要额外的步骤。这些扩展返回一个索引，一个特定字符的计数，以及这个游乐场插件代码将演示的范围。

extension String
{
    public func firstIndexOfCharacter(aCharacter: Character) -> String.CharacterView.Index? {

        for index in self.characters.indices {
            if self[index] == aCharacter {
                return index
            }

        }
        return nil
    }

    public func returnCountOfThisCharacterInString(aCharacter: Character) -> Int? {

        var count = 0
        for letters in self.characters{

            if aCharacter == letters{

                count++
            }
        }
        return count
    }


    public func rangeToCharacterFromStart(aCharacter: Character) -> Range<Index>? {

        for index in self.characters.indices {
            if self[index] == aCharacter {
                let range = self.startIndex...index
                return range
            }

        }
        return nil
    }

}



var MyLittleString = "MyVery:important String"

var theIndex = MyLittleString.firstIndexOfCharacter(":")

var countOfColons = MyLittleString.returnCountOfThisCharacterInString(":")

var theCharacterAtIndex:Character = MyLittleString[theIndex!]

var theRange = MyLittleString.rangeToCharacterFromStart(":")
MyLittleString.removeRange(theRange!)

仔细想想，你其实并不需要位置的确切Int版本。范围甚至是字符串。如果需要，Index足以再次获取子字符串:

let myString = "hello"

let rangeOfE = myString.rangeOfString("e")

if let rangeOfE = rangeOfE {
    myString.substringWithRange(rangeOfE) // e
    myString[rangeOfE] // e

    // if you do want to create your own range
    // you can keep the index as a String.Index type
    let index = rangeOfE.startIndex
    myString.substringWithRange(Range<String.Index>(start: index, end: advance(index, 1))) // e

    // if you really really need the 
    // Int version of the index:
    let numericIndex = distance(index, advance(index, 1)) // 1 (type Int)
}

与Objective-C中的NSString相比，Swift中的变量类型String包含不同的函数。Sulthan提到过，

Swift String没有实现RandomAccessIndex

你能做的是向下转换你的变量类型String到NSString(这是有效的Swift)。这将给你访问NSString中的函数。

var str = "abcdefghi" as NSString
str.rangeOfString("c").locationx   // returns 2

你也可以像这样在一个字符串中找到一个字符的索引，

extension String {

  func indexes(of character: String) -> [Int] {

    precondition(character.count == 1, "Must be single character")

    return self.enumerated().reduce([]) { partial, element  in
      if String(element.element) == character {
        return partial + [element.offset]
      }
      return partial
    }
  }

}

它在[String]中给出结果。距离ie。(Int)

"apple".indexes(of: "p") // [1, 2]
"element".indexes(of: "e") // [0, 2, 4]
"swift".indexes(of: "j") // []

如果你只需要一个字符的索引，最简单，快速的解决方案(正如Pascal已经指出的那样)是:

let index = string.characters.index(of: ".")
let intIndex = string.distance(from: string.startIndex, to: index)

在我看来，了解逻辑本身的更好方法是下面

 let testStr: String = "I love my family if you Love us to tell us I'm with you"
 var newStr = ""
 let char:Character = "i"

 for value in testStr {
      if value == char {
         newStr = newStr + String(value)
   }

}
print(newStr.count)